The Program Manager, Assembled Chemical Weapon Alternatives (PM-ACWA), requested that the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) conduct a fall analytical characterization of a OB sample collected at the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. The liquid and solid samples were collected from two warheads of the M55 Rockets. The Center developed and implemented an analysis plan using several analytical techniques including nuclear magnetic resonance, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, inductively coupled mass spectrometry, light microscopy, density determination, viscometry, and differential scanning calorimetry. This report contains the details of the sampling and analysis activities and results of the characterization effort. This report is possibly the first in-depth study of the chemical and physical properties of GIB solids obtained from an operating disposal plant and a side-by-side comparison of the GB solids with laboratory synthesized standards.

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